Council of Officials Meeting April 11, 2018
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Council of Officials Meeting River’s Edge Pavillion Tom Hanafan Rivers Edge Park April 11, 2018 4250 Rivers Edge Parkway Council Bluffs, IA 51501 Registration: 11:15 a.m. Lunch & Meeting: 11:30 a.m. This meeting of the Metropolitan Area Planning Agency Council of Officials will be conducted in compliance with the Iowa Open Meetings Act. Please see the recording secretary to review the Open Meeting Act policy. AGENDA: A. Roll call and Introduction B. Approval of the January 17, 2018 Meeting Minutes – (Action) C. Council of Officials Survey Disussion MAPA Staff will lead a discussion with the Council to gauge interest in future topics and format for meetings. D. MAPA Agency Reports – (Information) 1. TIP Fee Update – Mike Helgerson 2. Regional Planning & Vision Committee – Greg Youell 3. Community Development Report – Don Gross E. New Business 1. FY 2019 Work Program (UPWP and Community Development) – (Action) F. Guest Speaker : Noddle Companies – River’s Edge (Information) G. Community Updates – (Time Permitting) H. Adjournment Next Meeting: MAPA Council of Officials Meeting Wednesday, July 11, 2018 Location TBD Council of Officials Meeting January 17, 2018 OMAHA-COUNCIL BLUFFS METROPOLITAN AREA PLANNING AGENCY COUNCIL OF OFFICIALS REGULAR MEETING January 17, 2018 The January 17, 2018 Council of Officials meeting was held at Eppley Airfield – Eppley Conference Center in Omaha, Nebraska. Doug Kindig, President, opened the meeting by welcoming all Councilmembers and guest. The lunch started at 11:30 a.m. with the meeting to follow at 12:00 p.m. MINUTES A. ROLL CALL/INTRODUCTION Members Present: Steve Dethlefs Washington County Donald Groesser Mayor, City of Ralston Tom Hanafan Supervisor, Pottawattamie County Doug Kindig Mayor, City of La Vista David Klug Chairman, Papio-Missouri River NRD Ron Kohn Mayor, City of Glenwood Daniel Lawse Board Chairman, Metro Jerry McCall Fremont Public School District Gary Mixan Commissioner, Sarpy County Jim Realph Mayor, City of Blair Dave Roth Executive Director, Omaha Airport Authority Rita Sanders Mayor, City of Bellevue Matt Walsh Mayor, City of Council Bluffs Kevin Zimmerman Mayor, City of Minden Others: Pam Buethe City of La Vista David Forrest City of Ralston Deb Hale City of La Vista Joe Mangiamelli City of Bellevue Steve McCoy Omaha Airport Authority Dan Owens Omaha Airport Authority Wendy Schultz City of Council Bluffs Justin Schultz Pottawattamie County Joe Soucie City of La Vista Rod Storm City of Blair Angie Winquist City of Glenwood MAPA Staff: Christina Brownell Sue Cutsforth Melissa Engel Don Gross Mike Helgerson Karna Loewenstein Patti McCoy Greg Youell B. APPROVAL OF THE OCTOBER 4, 2017 MEETING MINUTES – (ACTION) MOTION by Hanafan, SECOND by Lawse to approve the October 4, 2017 minutes. Motion Carried. C. NEW BUSINESS – 1. MAPA Interlocal Agreement Update – (INFORMATION) Mr. Greg Youell provided an update to the Council on the Interlocal Agreement and the status of Cass Council of Officials Meeting January 17, 2018 County joining the MAPA region. Cass County has voted to move to the MAPA region. The state statute would now require an update to officially make the change. MAPA staff and members have also been discussing the addition of a TIP fee. D. MAPA Reports and Project Updates – (INFORMATION) 1. Metro Travel Improvement Study (MTIS) – Mr. Mike Helgerson provided an update to the Council on the MTIS and provided a brief review of the Executive Summary of Phase 2. The next stage of the project is for the Nebraska Department of Transportation (NDOT) to evaluate the projects that have been identified and allocate funding for the projects that are selected to move forward. 2. Coordinated Planning Efforts for 2018 – 2019: LRTP/CEDS/Heartland 2050 – Ms. Karna Loewenstein provided an update to the Council on Heartland 2050 activities and provided a 2017 Heartland 2050 Annual Report to the Council. The Heartland 2050 Plan is due to be updated in 2020 along with the Long Range Transportation Plan and the Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy. These efforts will be coordinated to better align these documents. 3. MAPA Annual Survey Results & Ticket Drawing – Mr. Youell presented the results of the MAPA Annual Survey to the Council, MAPA received 57 responses. The winner of the drawing for the tickets was Carol Robertson, Mills County Auditor. E. EPPLEY AIRFIELD PRESENTATION, OMAHA AIRPORT AUTHORITY – (INFORMATION) Mr. Steve McCoy, Manager of Airline Affairs - Omaha Airport Authority, provided an update to the Council of Eppley Airfield including routes that fly out of Omaha, statistics and how many people are flying in and out of the Metro Area. Mr. Dave Roth, Executive Director – Omaha Airport Authority, updated the Council on the airports Master Plan. F. TOUR OF EPPLEY AIRFIELD MAINTENANCE BUILDING – (INFORMATION) Council members were invited to tour the newly updated Eppley Airfield Maintenance Building. G. ADJOURNMENT – Meeting was adjourned at 1:00 p.m. Omaha-Council Bluffs Metropolitan Area Planning Agency FY 2019 Consolidated Work Program Draft March 2018 This page is intentionally left blank. The Unified Planning Work Program (UPWP) documents the Metropolitan Area Planning Agency’s (MAPA’s) transportation related activities and projects for fiscal year (FY) 2019 which encompasses July 1, 2018 through June 30, 2019. MAPA serves as a voluntary association of local governments in the greater Omaha region chartered in 1967. MAPA performs planning and development work, especially to address problems that are regional in scope and cross jurisdictional boundaries. MAPA is the Council of Governments (COG) for Douglas, Sarpy, and Washington Counties in Nebraska and Pottawattamie and Mills Counties in Iowa. MAPA serves as the federally required Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) and Transportation Management Area (TMA) for a smaller region that encompasses Douglas and Sarpy Counties and a small portion along US Highway 75 in Cass County in Nebraska, as well as the southwestern portion of Pottawattamie County (i.e., the area generally south of Crescent and Underwood and west of L-52) in Iowa. In addition, MAPA provides staff support for the Iowa Department of Transportation (Iowa DOT) Regional Planning Affiliation (RPA) for Harrison, Mills, Pottawattamie, and Shelby Counties known as RPA- 18. Planning activities for RPA-18 are contained in a separate RPA-18 Transportation Planning Work Program (TPWP). The map below outlines the MAPA COG region and highlights the TMA boundary. The governing body for MAPA is a 64-member Council of Officials representing cities, counties, school districts, resource agencies, and numerous other governmental bodies within the region. The MAPA Board of Directors is a nine-member Board serving as the Council of Officials’ executive committee and is comprised of elected officials representing cities and counties from the larger five-county MAPA region. The Transportation Technical Advisory Committee (TTAC) reviews and makes recommendations related to transportation to the MAPA Board. The relationship, responsibility, and composition of the Board of Directors, Council of Officials, and TTAC are also described in the MAPA Interlocal Agreement and Committee Bylaws. Membership is listed in Appendix II. i Several large planning initiatives have been recently completed or are underway in the MAPA region. Heartland 2050 was adopted by the MAPA Council of Officials as the long-term vision for the greater Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area in January 2015. The Regional Vision was developed over 2013 and 2014 and entered implementation phase in 2015. The project produced a Vision Scenario for future growth and development that is now being utilized for MAPA’s transportation planning process. This collaborative project is an example of Regional Models of Cooperation, one of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Planning Emphasis Areas (PEA). During FY-2018 MAPA continued work on its next Long Range Transportation Plan update, LRTP 2050. The LRTP is being closely coordinated with the Metro Area Travel Improvement Study (MTIS), a joint Nebraska Department of Transportation (NDOT) / MAPA multi-year regional study of highway needs that will result in a list of prioritized projects for state investment and guide future regional transportation investments. This comprehensive study has developed a strong set of data for MTIS and other planning projects, and MAPA’s travel demand model has been updated significantly as part of ongoing collaboration with US-DOT. MTIS will also serve to develop long-range performance targets that will be support the requirements of MAP-21 and the FAST- ACT, the current transportation authorization bill. Throughout FY2018 MAPA closely coordinated with State DOTs and FHWA on implementing federal performance management guidelines– most notably in terms of Transit Asset Management and Safety Performance Measures. The performance-based approach is a new component of the federal transportation planning process and is another federal PEA that will be very important during FY2019. The LRTP 2050 will also incorporate other recent plans that were conducted in the metro are. These include the Heartland Connections Regional Transit Vision (RTV) and Regional Bicycle-Pedestrian Plan. The RTV proposed a staged approach to improve transit service in the region. These concepts were applied as part of the Sarpy County Transit study in FY2018 in addition to Metro Transit’s Transit Development Plan– a key initiative in both FY2018 and FY2019. These